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Haven in a Heartless World,

Haven in a Heartless World, Abstract Haven in a Heartless World presents the thesis that the emergence of capitalism created in the 18th and 19th centuries, "the bourgeois family system"; a system in which marriage took place at a relatively late age (compared to other societies) and was arranged by the individuals involved, not by their families. Children came to be seen not as little adults but as people with distinct attributes, "impressionability, vulnerability, innocence, which required a warm, protected, and prolonged period of nurture." As a result, child rearing became more demanding and emotional ties between parents and children more intense. The nuclear family, with increasingly attenuated ties to an extended kin network, became "an emotional refuge in a cold and competitive society...." "Yet the very conditions that gave rise to the need to view privacy and the family as a refuge from the larger world made it more and more difficult for the family References 1. Davis DB: The invasion of the family , New York Review of Books . 25:37-39, 1978. 2. Kohn ML: Class and Conformity , ed 2. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1977. 3. Bott E: Family and Social Network , ed 2, New York, The Free Press, 1971. 4. Pless IB: The changing face of primary care pediatrics . Pediatr Clin North Am 21:223-244, 1974. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Diseases of Children American Medical Association

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American Medical Association
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Copyright © 1978 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved.
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0002-922X
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10.1001/archpedi.1978.02120330097029
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Abstract Haven in a Heartless World presents the thesis that the emergence of capitalism created in the 18th and 19th centuries, "the bourgeois family system"; a system in which marriage took place at a relatively late age (compared to other societies) and was arranged by the individuals involved, not by their families. Children came to be seen not as little adults but as people with distinct attributes, "impressionability, vulnerability, innocence, which required a warm, protected, and prolonged period of nurture." As a result, child rearing became more demanding and emotional ties between parents and children more intense. The nuclear family, with increasingly attenuated ties to an extended kin network, became "an emotional refuge in a cold and competitive society...." "Yet the very conditions that gave rise to the need to view privacy and the family as a refuge from the larger world made it more and more difficult for the family References 1. Davis DB: The invasion of the family , New York Review of Books . 25:37-39, 1978. 2. Kohn ML: Class and Conformity , ed 2. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1977. 3. Bott E: Family and Social Network , ed 2, New York, The Free Press, 1971. 4. Pless IB: The changing face of primary care pediatrics . Pediatr Clin North Am 21:223-244, 1974.

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American Journal of Diseases of Children – American Medical Association

Published: Aug 1, 1978

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